FYI, we have submitted an updated copy of the ALTO Protocol draft. In this version, we have adjusted IP addresses used in examples to be proper TEST-NET addresses. We have also adjusted the notation used to specify structure of protocol messages (i.e., JSON objects) to use a more C-like struct syntax that should be both more concise and precise.
Of course, feedback and comments are welcome. Please also see some open issues for which we would particularly like feedback: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/alto/trac/report/1 Thanks! Rich ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IETF I-D Submission Tool <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:47 PM Subject: New Version Notification for draft-ietf-alto-protocol-03 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected] A new version of I-D, draft-ietf-alto-protocol-03.txt has been successfuly submitted by Richard Alimi and posted to the IETF repository. Filename: draft-ietf-alto-protocol Revision: 03 Title: ALTO Protocol Creation_date: 2010-03-08 WG ID: alto Number_of_pages: 52 Abstract: Networking applications today already have access to a great amount of Inter-Provider network topology information. For example, views of the Internet routing table are easily available at looking glass servers and entirely practical to be downloaded by clients. What is missing is knowledge of the underlying network topology from the ISP or Content Provider (henceforth referred as Provider) point of view. In other words, what a Provider prefers in terms of traffic optimization -- and a way to distribute it. The ALTO Service provides information such as preferences of network resources with the goal of modifying network resource consumption patterns while maintaining or improving application performance. This document describes a protocol implementing the ALTO Service. While such service would primarily be provided by the network (i.e., the ISP), content providers and third parties could also operate this service. Applications that could use this service are those that have a choice in connection endpoints. Examples of such applications are peer-to-peer (P2P) and content delivery networks. The IETF Secretariat. _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
